Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Owen D. Young

A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, abut the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.

Change | Character | Day | Heart | Mind | Spirit |

Andy Warhol

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Change | Character | Time |

Arthur Mortimer Astbury

"Point of view" must mean more than the mere prejudice; it should express conclusions reached by the painful process known as thinking. And when new facts or factors are presented, free men should be as vigilant to change their viewpoints as to confirm them.

Change | Men | Prejudice | Thinking | Wisdom |

Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? And canst thou take a bath unless the wood undergoes a change? And canst thou be nourished, unless the food undergoes a change? And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Dost thou not see then that for thyself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

Change | Man | Nature | Wisdom | Afraid |

Henry Major Tomlinson

The world is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world. And that is our hope.

Change | Character | Hope | Wisdom | World | Think |

Aleyn NULL

The true and noble way to kill a foe, is not to kill him; you, with kindness, may so change him that he shall cease to be a foe, and then he is slain.

Change | Kill | Kindness | Wisdom |

Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Change | Nature | Nothing | Wisdom |

Gregory Bateson

Any living thing which triumphs in the struggle against its environment destroys itself.

Struggle | Wisdom |

Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson

The tools of the mind become burdens when the environment which made them necessary no longer exists.

Mind | Wisdom |

Arnold Bennett, fully Enoch Thomas Arnold Bennett

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Better | Change | Wisdom |

Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson

We look at change but we do not see it. We speak of change, but we do not think about it. We say that change exists, that everything changes, that change is the very law of things: yes, we say it and we repeat it; but those are only words, and we reason and philosophize as though change did not exist.

Change | Law | Reason | Wisdom | Words | Think |

Russell Baker. fully Russell Wayne Baker

We live in an environment whose principal product is garbage. The shined shoe in such a society is a hypocritical statement because it promotes the lie that we can thrive on garbage without being dirtied by it.

Society | Wisdom | Society |

R. H. Blyth, fully Reginald Horace Blyth

We are to live with life and die with death, not separated from them. The problem of suffering is insoluble, because we think of ourselves as apart from pain and death, in opposition to them. We can be free from change only by changing with it.

Change | Death | Life | Life | Opposition | Pain | Suffering | Wisdom | Think |

Henry Bolingbroke, Henry IV of England

The confirmed prejudices of the thoughtful life, are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as most must trifle away age, because they trifled away youth, others must labor on the maze of error, because they have wandered there too long to find their way.

Age | Change | Error | Labor | Life | Life | Wisdom | Youth |

Mark Caine

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Success | Wisdom |